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Jelly, the New Drug

Posted on December 6, 2013

Special guest blog by Pat Marr, North Carolina, USA

Jelly DealerBreaking News!

Interpol is on the lookout for the global distributor of a new but highly addictive substance called STREETJELLY. The mastermind appears to be a deceptively congenial programmer named Frank Podlaha ( AKA “Frankie” or “The King” by his minions on the STREET)

He has single-handedly constructed an elaborate system which enables performers to connect with audiences ANYWHERE ON THE PLANET! At first look, this seems innocent enough… but now, health care providers around the world are reporting an epidemic of symptoms that indicate a new addictive substance has been unleashed.

Symptoms include the following:

  1. the irresistible urge to play music on StreetJelly until 5 am even though you know you have to get up for work in the morning
  2. the inability to get through a ten-minute period without checking StreetJelly to see if somebody new started playing since the last time you checked.
  3. cashing in the 401k to buy tokens
  4. sweaty palms and shaky legs unless you’re sitting at the computer watching StreetJelly
  5. playing hooky from school, work or other important responsibilities in order to get your StreetJelly Fix
  6. the realization that the only time you experience true euphoria is when performing on or watching StreetJelly

 

If you have any of these symptoms, don’t bother reporting it because there is no cure. Your best bet is to surrender and enjoy the euphoria.

PS: it’s not illegal (YET)… but federal agents say it’s more fun than a lot of things that ARE illegal. Your call.

Why the Name Street Jelly?

Posted on August 10, 2012

Frank Making Jelly Guitars

Frank Making Jelly Guitars

A lot of folks have been telling us they really like our name, Street Jelly.  That is always followed by, “what does it mean?”  Simple enough, “street” is for that live, spontaneous street music.  The kind of music you can hear literally anywhere at anytime.  Of course, it doesn’t have to be only from street music – it’s any kind of improvisational music.  Jamming!

Yep, I said jam.  Naturally, jamming is a the heart of live music. And jam is, well, also “jelly.”  And preserves.  And marmalade.  How do you make a name out of all that?  The first step is to start checking available dot-com domain names.  No matter how great a name you come up with for your band, show, website, company, etc – if the domain .com (or .whatever) is taken, you are pretty much screwed.

I searched and searched and searched.  Eventually I found StreetJelly.com was available.  I nearly fell out of my seat when I found it.  I coudn’t believe I found two English words together in a dot-com name that was not parked and held for ransom by some URL broker scoundrel.

Jelly Guitar Photo Shoot

Jelly Guitar Photo Shoot

As instantly as street and jelly came together – the image, the voice rather, of a musician popped into my head.  I seemed like yesterday (it was more than 20 years ago).  I was living in Germany and knew a Scottish musician who played the local bars and played in the street on sunny days by the Nürnberg Castle.  I think by day he was a construction worker.  He had a real thick Scottish accent and he told me one evening, right before he was about to perform, he says, “Frank, I feel like jelly.”

I was like, “what?” Actually, I should have started off this story like I usually do, “I was a little drunk at the time…”  Any way, he proceeded to tell me no matter how many times he performed, he was always nervous before going on stage.

But it’s that phrase, in that wicked harsh accent, “I feel like jelly” that has always stuck; burned in my brain.  When Street Jelly came up in our searches, I knew that was it.  We were done, we found it!